16 comments on The best race so far – your verdict

I have to say its turkey that is the best race so far. Because apart from the usual smoke and noise, for the better part of the race there was an element of suspense. With the Ferrari under performing in Australia, there was not much action up front.

Can i hazard to comment that it would appear your voters love races where Lewis performs well? From your chart there seems to be a direct relation between the popularity of the race and Hamilton’s good performance.

I think it’s the most popular race so far because there was a lot more action in the Australian Grand Prix, and if the vote was artificially boosted by anything I think it was the fact that it was the first Grand Prix for five months!

However long-range forecasts suggest it might rain at Monaco, which is always fun…

I agree with Keith – Perhaps the voters got carried away with the new season hype for round 1. It’s not a Hamilton thing, but the more interesting races are those with the outcome not so guaranteed, plus Turkey had a pass for the lead on track.

i dont think it has anything atall to do with these 2 races being hamiltons best performances of the year.

Australia was just chaotic and the lack of finishers and number of safety car periods provided some great comeback drives and a few over achieiving.

Turkey was good because there was a geniune foght for the lead and an overtaking maneoverue between the front 2 ( a real rarity these days ) it was great watching hamilton giving it everything to try and make a gap to massa. as someone has already said if it was kubica or heikki i think it would still had the same rating.

I enjoyed Australia the most this year so far, it really picked up where 2007 left off. The Alonso/Kovalainen scrap towards the end was very enjoyable, a very tough race for everybody.
Turkey was more a strategic race, more of a game of chess, but still very fascinating. For all out racing, incidents, and action, Australia so far was the best.

I think that Melbourne is the best race so far this year, as it was action packed and never a dull moment, so I rated it pretty highly when I voted.

I don’t think that the fact that it is the season opener really affected the voting too much. For example, last years race was as boring as bat**** and I am sure if you did a poll then, the score would have been a lot lower.